Influenced by The Ramones , The Clash and other early punk bands, Clif “Hanger” Croce put together The Freeze in 1978. A friend scraped up enough cash the next year to make 2,000 copies of the band’s debut single, “I Hate Tourists”. According to a band history, “A Christian group tried to ban it. The Boston Phoenix voted it one of the top 10 local singles of the year. It was fun.” “I Hate Tourists” was released in 1980. The Freeze’s music was picked by Newbury Comics ‘ in-house label, Modern Method Records , which released several of the Freeze’s songs on the Boston hardcore compilation albums Unsafe at Any Speed and This Is Boston, Not L.A. in 1982. The Freeze’s title track for that album was used in a television commercial for Newbury Comics on local UHF music video station V66 , with the song’s penultimate word bleeped out. The band also re-recorded “No One’s Ever Coming Home” for Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, Vol. 1 , released by Gasatanka Records in 1984.
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